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Markoff article

Hi J. - we could use some help at Philip Markoff. As you may have seen, 63.215.27.57 (talk · contribs · logs) has been adding reams of POV material and seems unwilling to understand our basic policies - see his/her edit summaries and Talk: Philip Markoff#Commentary, for example. I've tried various ways of explaining what we're about, and why we stick to sources, etc., but it seems to be going in one ear and out the other, and he just keeps making his edits without consensus. Now a new user Theo789 (talk · contribs · logs) is doing the same thing - making the same edits. Probably the same person, maybe not, I don't know. But I think perhaps some admin voices coming in with some explanation of how we do things might help, or maybe we need to consider something beyond that. It's becoming increasingly difficult to work on the article and keep it neutral - I've been trying, as have a couple of others, but it's not working. An example is the repeated insertion of negative characterizations of the victims - implying what, that they deserved their fate? I don't know, but I do know that it's beyond POV. Thanks for any help or suggestions about how to get others more involved, and who. It's a fairly high profile article, at least for now - over 30,000 views this past week - so I think we need to rein it in. Thanks Tvoz/talk 00:22, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

WHOOPS - I didn't see Cube lurker's comment directly above until I saved this. Tvoz/talk 00:23, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

OK - I just read the article again, with a slew of new edits that I hadn't seen, and I'm about to give up. At one point I think the piece was pretty balanced and NPOV - maybe this edit - but now the crazy has blossomed all over and it's out of hand on both sides I'm afraid. If you have any ideas about how to proceed I'd appreciate it. If not, I may move on to something more productive and let the chips fall where they fall. Maybe I'll go back to the relative peace and tranquility of... Barack Obama. AAHHHH. Tvoz/talk 00:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Can you help?

I want to block your account but I don't know how to do it. Can you help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.84.60 (talk) 09:52, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

You can't, because you're not an administrator. And no, I won't make you an administrator. Goodbye. --Deskana, Champion of the Frozen Wastes 09:54, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Even if I could make you an administrator (which I can't), why on earth would I tell you how to block me? If I wanted to be blocked, I would just block myself. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 14:10, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

If you block yourself, can you unblock yourself? Sorry, this is taking a turn for the meta. tedder (talk) 15:09, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you can. And if he was an admin and he blocked me, I could also unblock myself. So the end result is the same. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

user:79.132.31.212

Hello, i notice by your recent comments to user:79.132.31.212 ‎that you seem to have the same probles with him or her making changes to article that they think are correct. Is there anyway you can warn or block this person from adding their own P.O.V's to the articles?

Regards

msa1701 (talk) 14:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, I warned them a month ago, and since most IPs are dynamic, I doubt it's the same person. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 14:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Well done on your comments to the anonymous user listed above - Hopefully they will have the guts to register a user name and defend their actions!!!

Or maybe not.....

Many thanks

msa1701 (talk) 15:55, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

H1N1 Virus

Vandle struck again (2nd-3rd time i think...) Im not very good at posting warnings so i'll let you take care of it and ill keep watch ANOMALY-117 (talk) 19:56, 1 May 2009 (UTC)ing the site

User: Jurgen11

Ok so sorry, yes it was wrong for me to vandalise, but i just spent over 1 hour editing a page correctly until to find that 2minutes later another member, not you, had reverted it back, yet it isnt an administrator, i wrote more information and didnt delete anything, and it was all correct but the deleters reason was because it didnt look good! i just wrote the best information on a pokemon !! yes thats right...1 hour on 1 pokemon! and it was amazing! but now its lost forever ! :( PS: sorry for the vandalism, it was merely an act of anger and will never happen again, its just a waste of time! and i have never done it before..

I am sorry for reverting it, but as I said on your talkpage, the Pokemon in the lists shouldn't look like that. If you want to make a better Arceus article you can do so on your Userspace. But, be warned it might take more then 1 hour to make it up to par where it will become a real article. Look on your talkpage under "Arceus--Blake (talk) 22:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)"

Earned

		The Admin's Barnstar
		Good work blocking the vandals. Izzedine (talk) 23:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

For Deleting the Vandalism on my talk page.--Skater (talk) 23:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:44, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

hello i need your assistance - at my wit's end kinda

hello, Someone at some point created a page about me and I am wanting to take it down. There have been MANY untruths for one.

That alone is the biggest reason I would like to take it down.

Is there anything you can do to assist? When I have tried to edit it reverts...I tried multiple times.

I appreciate ANY assistance, thank you, Lightsunfold (talk) 01:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Because J.delanoy himself doesn't respond to the above message, I have replied to it. Help from someone with more knowledge of the Butthole Surfers is appreciated. Cheers, theFace 14:07, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Chess

Nice chess game; I copied it to a subpage of my own. BTW, it's your move. MC10 | Sign here! 18:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

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passive income page

hello :), I resently edited passive income 2 times to no avail, I was trying to remove the fairly irrelevant external link, which was clearly spam and replace it with something constructive, I completely agree with the first revert, so I picked something very relevant for the second. did you actually follow the link, or did you assume I was vandalizing? as think the content is relevant. --Pure ev1l (talk) 23:07, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

DougsTech's rollback privileges

Over the past few hours, several editors have warned DougsTech about his "mistakes" while using rollback with Huggle, and he continues to make those "mistakes". I think it may be time to revoke DougsTech's rollback privileges until he can learn to use them properly. What do you think? This is just a friendly suggestion by the way. :) Timmeh! 02:19, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Don't we have enough rollbackers already? (just sayin'). tedder (talk) 02:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't like to do things like that to people without giving them a "formal" last warning. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Swine Flu

I noticed on your userpage that you like funny vandalisms as well. Check this one out, I just lost it when I saw this one: [1] --Sky Attacker (talk) 07:11, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Header added

Hi, I'm trying to post on the page Prestwick but you keep deleteing what I write. Please can you stop doing this. Thank you, people have a right to know what is going on! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.96.136 (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Header added

I was trying to edit the article on Cottonwood Alabama.I work for the Town of Cottonwood ,and feel the article about the police chief is pure slander by someone out for revenge.

I know, sorry. I think I got rid of the vandalism. Regards, J.delanoy^gabs_adds 00:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank You so much216.47.200.33 (talk) 00:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

Good day, I wonder if you would be so kind as to grant me rollback permission (I just looked for an admin I knew on the list of those willing to grant it!). Many thanks, HJMitchell You rang? 01:34, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all you do!

I wanted to thank you for all you do to help revert vandalism on wikipedia, like on my talk page. You're doing a great job! T3chl0v3r (talk) 01:44, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

T3chl0v3r (talk) has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

Spread the tastiness of cakes by adding {{subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Yay! Cake!! nom nom nom J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:46, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Trinitarios

Would you like to give an opinion on the AfD for Trinitario? Niteshift36 (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

...If you want me to... Why are you asking me? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

VANDALISM!!!!

J. Delanoy, there has been vandalism on the Lost Tapes Page, many of it is offensive and inappropriate. Could You please revert it? --Boy of The Waters (talk) 17:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC) Wait, I've Got it, just could you block the vandals?--Boy of The Waters (talk) 17:28, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Rollback

Cheers, I probably won't make major use of it since I'm already using Twinkle but it's good to have it if I want it! Much obliged. HJMitchell You rang? 18:41, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

You Should go ahead and block this IP because it is a high school. It'd save a lot of fuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.251.199.24 (talk • contribs)

small text

I was about to add a barnstar to your page that said "the aborter's barnstar", but I thought better of it...Keeper | 76 22:25, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

LOL J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:26, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

annexed/recovered

Well, I was going to suggest that you and Yeafvnl talk about the Recovered territories on its talk page, but apparently there's some sockpuppet dispute that may have to take place first. Anyway, the question will remain open on those pages. See you there. Banaticus (talk) 22:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeafvnl is a sock of User:Serafin, otherwise known as the Copernicus vandal. You can safely revert anything he tries to change. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:48, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Chess

Hello J. delanoy. I am very interested in your chess board and actually tried to pinch it. When I copied and pasted it to my own page I couldn't change it to my own name, so I am very cheekily asking you if it is possible and if you could tell me how to go about it. PS, I learned to play chess when I was four years old and even taught a future champion. The downside is, I think that four year old boy could probably beat his older self. :( Cheers. Jack forbes (talk) 22:58, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&oldid=288154456 . Just replace all the XXXXXX's with your username. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:59, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that, much appreciated. I hope you win all your games. :) Jack forbes (talk) 02:03, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism thanks

I appreciate you taking the time to revert Tofumaniac's vandalism in various articles and to promptly ban that account. Mishlai (talk) 23:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

ok

Oh alright. 86.44.223.18 (talk) 01:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Mdiack1977

Thanks for all your help tonight controlling the nonsense that Mdiack1977 has created. I appreciate it. Cheers,--ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds chat 01:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

What can you do after you create a new userbox?

See title. Koalas!--Abce2|Howdy! 01:57, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean... :S J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:59, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I mean that after you ( in this case me) finish making a userbox, what can you do with it? Oh ,and I just like saying koalas. Koalas! --Abce2|Howdy! 02:01, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh. Well, just use it I guess :P Add it to a subpage of WP:UBX if you think it is good. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:07, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I realize now that I had worded the question wrong. I meant to say how do you do that? Oh, and nice banner. --Abce2|Howdy! 02:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

You want to know how to make a userbox? sorry, it's late here, and I'm tired... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:10, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I mean how to do stuff with it After you make it. --Abce2|Howdy! 02:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh. I think WP:UBX has a section somewhere on various ways of displaying them. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:18, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks.--Abce2|Howdy! 02:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Open proxy abuse

Got another one here, User talk:72.249.104.212. Momo san ^Gespräch 03:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Locked, thanks :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:39, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Got another one, this time it's on another range here Momo san ^Gespräch 03:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you want to put a longer term block on the 72.249.64.0/18 range? I think a week block may not do the trick. Momo san ^Gespräch 03:16, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

It looks like the abuse filter has caught new IP's, see here, but I don't think they can be blocked now since he's really jumping the ship now. Momo san ^Gespräch 03:01, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I reverted your edit on Catholic sex abuse cases.

I think it is a grammar & word choice issue--the accused priests may be sexually deviant, but they may have committed abuse. I thought there might be an issue because being deviant is less objectionable that actually committing abuse against children, so I deliberately did not make it a minor edit. If you disagree, lets discuss it on the talk page. One of the biggest problems in discussing loaded issues like this is sloppy language--"What is this person really saying?" Sturunner (talk) 13:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

You are correct. I apologize for my lack of attention. Jdelanoy^{Main talk} 15:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Chico Mendez

yo B) r we aloud to edit on Wikipedia or can u only do dat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.200.223.3 (talk) 16:45, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Anyone is allowed to edit, but please try to make constructive edits. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 16:50, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism warnings

Hi. I am monitoring the Leaning Tower of Pisa article, as you have been recently. A fair lot of vandalism happens there, as you see, and I'm not sure whether to ask for semi-protection again. Anyway.

I see that you put warnings into a vandal's talk page. Can only administrators do that? Can I too, if I happen to revert blatant vandalism? Is there a central information page for this kind of interventions and/or a standard way to ask admins for blocking a repeating vandal?

Thank you :-) --Andylong (talk) 17:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Anyone can leave warnings. A set of templates can be found at WP:UTM, or you can install Twinkle to automate the process. To report repeat vandals to admins, go to WP:AIV, or you can use Twinkle to automate this as well. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 00:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

IP

Time for another? Enigma^msg 17:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

What's the template for your "if you're unable to edit here" box?

I looked in your code, but I'm clueless with some of this. I'm staying semi'ed for a bit so want that to be an option for IPs, SPAs, etc. Thanks! StarM 00:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

The code is

<div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style:none; padding-left:0; ">
<div class="NavHead" style="background:transparent; padding:1px; border:1px solid black; text-align:center">If I am not on, or if I am busy...</div>
<div class="NavContent" style="text-align:left; border-left:1px solid black; border-bottom:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; padding:5px">

, and of course the corresponding </div>. I'm working on my homework now, but if you want, just tell me what you want on your edit notice, and I'll do it for you later once I'm done with my school. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 00:41, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

thanks and um, yes please :) I'm so bad with this. At the top of your talk page it says, If you are unable to edit this page, please leave your message(s) here. I'd like ot have that. If it can be sized the same as my Wait! Are you here because your article was speedy deleted? Click here before leaving a message to find out why that would be great, but if not, no worries. No rush, I haven't done anything lately that should have non-autoconfirmeds coming my way, but I'm going to be offline for the weekend and am not unprotecting again until the troll gets bored. StarM 00:51, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

perfect, thanks! StarM 18:02, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

i dident do nut n im in school and its boring can i talk on your page and delete it later —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bballerc28 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:AN/I

The IP has opened a thread about your actions, which I found courteous to a fault, at WP:AN/I. AniMate^talk 03:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Kerr lake edit

I am curious why you chose to remove the added link to the Bugg's Island Lake web site. I went to the linked site and think it excellently provides information regarding fishing on Kerr Lake. Since fishing is one of the most popular recreational events on this man-made reservoir, I think the link expands knowledge directly related to the Wiki article. I'd like to put the link back but would be glad to reconsider based on your reasoning. LLDMart (talk) 16:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

The user who added the link also added links to several other pages. External links on Wikipedia must add something encyclopedic to the article, and adding links pointing at the same domain to many articles is usually viewed as spamming. For my part, I would be interested in knowing how you saw this, and why you are contacting me. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 16:14, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi there, J.delanoy. I was wondering if you could grant me Rollback rights, as I saw you on CAT:WARR and thought I'd ask.. I revert quite a bit of vandalism and unnecessary edits, so it would be very useful to me. :-) Percxyz (Call me Percy, it's easier) 17:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :D Percxyz (Call me Percy, it's easier) 19:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on My Talk Page

Thank you for reverting vandalism to my talk page --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 22:17, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome :-). J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh no

If you're friends with Scarian, <sob>, don't bother looking <sob> for him - HE RETIRED! Rory (talk) 22:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah

Hi. If you get a chance could you please delete this page. It qualifies for CSD as a copyright violation and the creator keeps removing the tag. Thanks. --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 23:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. :-) Thank you, --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 23:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Award

Samantha

In recognition of the incredible amount of time and work you devote to the project, Wikivoices awards you One Samantha, for reaching a stunning 250,000 edits.

Signed,

— Jake Wartenberg 04:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

–Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:25, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

NW (Talk) 04:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Durova^Charge! 04:28, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Awadewit (talk) 04:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Lucifer Cat (talk) 04:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Wow, thanks guys :D J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Confused

Why didn't you get threatened with bureaucratic review? Tiderolls 05:08, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Maybe he thought threatening a guy in Category:Wikipedia administrators was a bad idea? I don't know. I feel left out... *sob* J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:10, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I know you've seen funnier, but I'm new. That's like, in my top three. Tiderolls 05:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

No, not really. I've seen a lot, but that comes very, very close to the top. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:16, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Not to but in to the conversation, but I thought it was hilarious. :) Cheers, --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 05:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

You don't have to worry about "butting in". Almost everyone does it, so feel free :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:31, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Does this mean that I should blank your talk page and replace it with something more interesting, such as pictures of marine life or flashing text? ;-) Cheers, --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 05:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Stalk, stalk Mishlai (talk) 05:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Zomg. What have I done? O_O J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:42, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

LOL. Maybe I'll replace it with flashing pictures of marine life. --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 05:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I have an entire page of funny vandalisms and things. I got the idea from J.delanoy's "funny stuff" on his user page. I have a seperate page for 2009 too. I'm going to add your recent find to that! --The Legendary Sky Attacker 21:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Man..

Wish I could use Huggle like you :/ Thanks for reverting warning from my talkpage, apparently someone removed my name from the huggle whitelist. --PirateSmackK^Arrrr! 15:53, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

You deleted my article

You deleted my article without giving me enough notice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fngosa (talk • contribs) 19:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Picture Problem

Could you see what the problem is with the image on this page, look at the "music video" section. Thank you. --The Legendary Sky Attacker 20:52, 9 May 2009 (UTC) It was deleted. But shouldn't the box be removed? --The Legendary Sky Attacker 20:54, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I removed the box. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:58, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks J.delanoy. You are very reliable. --The Legendary Sky Attacker 21:28, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Userpage

Ahaha. Well done. I can't believe I was bored enough to crack your code (Mind, keeping in mind the content of the page, it probably isn't yours). Partly so this thread isn't purely useless (and partly to supplement my knowledge of HTML), what do the two top lines do?
Thanks. —LedgendGamer 04:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC) If you want to, you can answer on my talk page and delete this. —LedgendGamer

Well, I'd rather not say. If you enable email for your account, I'll tell you. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:04, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I could have sworn admins could email regardless of enabling. I'll have to do a bit of re-reading. Anyways, I've enabled it. —LedgendGamer 05:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry for wasting your time. I've hidden the HTML. —LedgendGamer 05:25, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Re False Positive 690565, IP 96.30.141.33

Hi, I received a message from ClueBot and you regarding vandalism to articles, which I definitely did not do. I tried adding the false positive to the list linked in the first message, but I can't find any way to actually edit the page. Thanks for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrsMopps (talk • contribs) 05:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know what you are talking about, can you be more specific? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 05:18, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

This, I imagine. – iridescent 19:38, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, if that is indeed the one that you are talking about, the only thing I can think of is that you must have a shared IP address, and that someone else did the vandalism. If that's the case, just don't worry about it. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Hurricane Georges article notice

Excuse us, J.delanoy, but there has been questionable editing on Hurricane Georges' Impact section-whosoever performed the edits may have performed dubious grammar and not-good changing across the Impact areas. We've notified Cyclonebiskit and raised this issue on the talk areas of Hurricane Georges, but nobody responded about this as of yet. Our class is studying weather, storms or drought included-we cannot print pages with questionable edits, grammars or improper changes. Is there something you could do about this? The UWEC Class at 173.26.80.178 (talk) 14:47, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Macedonia evidence

In your evidence you have forgotten Macedonia (region) hits. Keep in mind that the hits come mainly from Republic of Macedonia (see my response to Fut.Perf. about that). That is true for the organic traffic from Google but could also be true for Wikipedia itself if that reflects the regional interest to the search term "Macedonia" in general internet usage (no reason to think that it doesn't). Far far 2nd place of volume of hits are originated from Albania and third from Greece. Shadowmorph ^{^"^} 19:22, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Even if you had any way at all of verifying your claims (which you don't), I do not care where the hits for Macedonia (the country) originate from, it makes no difference whatsoever. The issue I am addressing with my evidence is "What are most people looking for when they search for Macedonia". That is independent of anything else, since the utility of the navigational structure is only dependent on what people are looking for, not on where those people are located, or anything else. There are many places named "United States", but our article United States is about the United States of America. Unquestionably most people looking at this article are from the United States of America. Who cares? The navigational structure is successful.

With regard to Macedonia (region), I am not going to include that in my evidence, simply because it has way too many incoming links to be able to determine with any degree of accuracy how many page-views are coming from Macedonia. Macedonia (Greece) also has too many in my opinion, but again, I don't really care. In any case, Macedonia (Greece) has just under twice as many incoming links as the most that any of the other three articles I linked to has. Macedonia (region) has twice as many as all three of those articles combined. That is way too much of a statistical aberration to be even remotely useful, far more so than even the (Greece) article. Also, as evidenced by the fact that I overlooked both the (Greece) article and the (region) one, and John Carter apparently overlooked the (region) article, it is obvious that a far smaller percentage of page-views for these pages originate on Macedonia than the three I originally linked to, since they are no where near as conspicuous as the hatnote links; the latter is what people would instinctively click on if they got to an article and did not find what they were looking for.

The only way to settle this issue conclusively would be to create several temporary redirects, and point the links on Macedonia to these redirects. I considered doing this, but I decided not to for a very good reason. Page-view counts are very, very easily manipulated, as they are absolutely untraceable (unless you are a dev, and even then...) and many macros and browser add-ons exist to automatically reload pages. It would be impossible for me to change those links without people noticing, and I would have no choice but to explain myself, which would absolutely unquestionably result in people trying to skew my results. I wanted a real sample, so I did not say anything about what I was going to do.

Does all this mean that my data is meaningless? Perhaps, but I do not think so. If someone went to Macedonia looking for info about the Greek province or the geographical region, they would not read the entire first section and click on the link to Macedonia (region) and/or Macedonia (Greece). They would click on Macedonia (disambiguation). To suppose otherwise is absurd in my opinion. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. Curious you say that since a lot fuss has been made here that the main topic should reflect usability for English-speakers and not any other people (ethnic group or whatever). Now you say that it is indifferent of where the hits originate. Remember the Georgia case. In August 2008 Georgia had overwhelmingly more hits than Georgia, US. No article was moved. Oh, and I base my assertion to this piece of statistics, here (check Regional interest):

• http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Macedonia&cmpt=q

see how different the search terms are in the US

• http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Macedonia&geo=US&cmpt=q

Also

1st result in Google for "Macedonia" is Wikipedia entry for Macedonia

therefore the above demographics are transferred into Wikipedia. (I bet my right hand that more than half of Wikipedia traffic is actually organic traffic from Google)

Also

• Macedonian army -> Army of Macedon: 376 hits[2]
• Military of the Republic of Macedonia: 3640 hits[3].

How can the above happen in a general encyclopedia with English speaking readers? do the New-Zealanders and the Canadians care about the second so much? Should the English encyclopedia became a reference tool useful for the people of one country against those from another country?

And something related. Explain to me this[4]. I introduced Macedonians (Greeks), a poor quality article at the time, as an entry in the dab page (then at Macedonia). Immediately it gets stable 800 hits/day. Future Perfect argues to remove it. We split the page to noun/adj and Macedonian has very few hits. The article drops back to zero. He blanks Macedonians (Greeks); I re-write it. It is now at 50 hits/day. Shadowmorph ^{^"^} 00:49, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

First, your notes about Georgia are totally irrelevant. For one thing, we do not suddenly change our navigational structure just because of a current event. Second, Georgia is a disambiguation page. This is because as a long-term trend , neither the country nor the state has a clear majority of visitors, unlike Macedonia, which has somewhere around 500% of visitors looking for info about the modern country.

I am not entirely sure why you linked to Google trends. They show that worldwide statistics are remarkably similar to the US statistics in terms of categories. In terms of country of origin, of course people are more likely to search for info about their own country than other ones. That should be obvious. And as I explained before and will do again, for my arguments, it does not matter. My evidence is only concerned with making the navigational structure as easy to use as possible for as many people as possible.

The English language Wikipedia is written for English speakers, and it follows the norms of the English speaking world. I don't care if Google directs hundreds of people here from around the world. That is not our problem. And even if it is our problem, I. do. not. care. Full stop. I have absolutely zero interest in arguing this with you, as I have had it about up to here with this mess. There is nothing that you have said here about that, or will say here about that, that has not already been plastered across nearly every page on this site even remotely related to this dispute, so you do not need to waste your time and mine repeating it. Trust me, I know what you are trying to say. Repeating it over and over and over and over will not make me understand you better. And the real clincher with me is that I my evidence does not even relate to this part of the issue. All my evidence deals with is the page-view statistics of the articles. I don't care if 99% of the hits on Macedonia (ancient kingdom) originate in Fiji. The navigational structure's facility is not affected by where the hits originate. While I'm at it, my statement, that nationality does not matter, ONLY extends to the simple navigational structure of the topic. It does not extend to any other area of this dispute, so stop taking my words out of context. I am sick and tired of dealing with you people. You take every word, phrase, and sentence and dissect it, twisting it around to fit your own personal POV, and if someone makes a point that squarely contradicts your own beliefs, you either disregard it completely or simply dodge the issue. Or you come up with wild random crap that has utterly no bearing on anything. I already explained why all these other links you are giving me are not of consequence, but I will do it again, since apparently I did not yell loud enough the first time.

If someone went to Macedonia looking for info about the Greek province or the geographical region, or anything related to the term "Macedonia" that is not the modern country, they would not read the entire first section or the entire article to find the link to Macedonia (region) and/or Macedonia (Greece), or whatever. They would click on Macedonia (disambiguation) in the hatnote. To suppose otherwise is patently absurd. Since all of the articles you linked me to or will link me to are not prominently (or at all) linked in Macedonia, if someone visited the latter looking for them, there would be a page-view on the disambiguation page to show this. Unless you can convince me otherwise, I will not change my table, as all relevant information is already there. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Why are you so angry, I thought we were having a discussion. I didn't ask you to change anything in your evidence. If you think my points are irrelevant then Ok. I will not discuss this any further since that upsets you. You could have told me from the start: Hey shadow, I don't want to discuss it because I am tired of "you people". For what is worth I didn't associate you that as belonging to any "people", but you and other friendly admins tend to do so all the time. So "we people" quits this discussion now. Thanks for talking anyhow Shadowmorph ^{^"^}

Wikipedia Admin Scam

You may recall that you assisted me a while back in closing an old account under another user name. Today I received an e-mail from "The Wikipedia Freedom Fighters" purporting to be Wikipedia e-mail, but it was actually from a gmail account. The sender was requesting, since the old account is no longer in use, that I "donate" the account to the "Wikipedia Freedom Fighters" by sending them my login information. It appears that there is some kind of scam going on with Wikipedia admin accounts. I did not and will not reply to the e-mail, but I'm not sure if anything else should be done. Any thoughts? •••Life of Riley (T–C) 00:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know. That's... wow. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 00:16, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

AVI.

Just thought I'd let you know that the bot at AVI is requesting attention from multiple admins because it's backlogged. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 01:50, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

New user...

whose only posts are to WP:Long term abuse, asking questions about JA/G & General Tojo? Doesn't bode well. User:Unapregunta --Rrburke^(talk) 02:08, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Languishing page move

Hi again, JD. I wonder if you could lend an ear and maybe a hand. We've got hard-won consensus that was a long time in coming at Talk:Car accident to change the article title from Car accident to Traffic collision, because "accident" is not neutral — it connotes fault, inevitability, and/or unpredictability. "Collision", on the other hand, has no connotation at all; it just means two or more objects colliding. Also, collisions often involve vehicles other than cars, and/or pedestrians. So "car accident" is not only not neutral, but is also not appropriately broad in scope to represent the article.

Once consensus was attained and the discussion left open for several days to make sure, I went to make the move, but was thwarted by the existence of a redirect page at Traffic collision (which points at Car accident). I placed a request for move five days ago, on which there's been no action, but it did seem to draw the attention of an apparently tendentious editor who appears to wish to spoil the consensus with his lone (IMO spurious) dissent. It is my understanding and experience that consensus does not require unanimity; would you mind please commenting on that and taking a look at the discussion? What will it take to get some action on the requested move? Thanks, —Scheinwerfermann ^T·_C08:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

I told you...

I told you to stay away from that stuff, but nooo.... [5]. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:23, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

What can I say, that stuff is awesome :P J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Did you also graduate from Hogwarts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.39.227.34 (talk) 05:14, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Uh, what? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:20, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

passive income

I am not exactly happy a user (I think "Scheinwerfermann") deleted my post about a page, I just wanted a reply. here it is again:

hello :), I recently edited passive income 2 times to no avail, I was trying to remove the fairly irrelevant external link, which was clearly spam and replace it with something constructive, I completely agree with the first revert, so I picked something very relevant for the second. did you actually follow the link, or did you assume I was vandalizing? as think the content is relevant Pure ev1l (talk) 19:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

In my opinion, the link does not add anything of encyclopedic value to the article. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:41, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Uh…no, Pure ev1l, I didn't delete anything of yours. My sole edit to this page was to post my query to J.Delanoy, which appears in the section above this one. Check the diffs before you accuse people, please. Thanks. —Scheinwerfermann ^T·_C22:02, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Job For Ya

Noticed How to spot the next enron on the Recent Changes page. User:Gryphon Financial has been the only editor (obvious COI no matter what the page says). The page is serious spam and the above user has removed all attempts to PROD the page. Could you please take care of this page for me? Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk • 15:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Taken care of by another user. Thanks though. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 15:21, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/204.13.204.98

Can you issue a long-term block? It returns every few days for more vandalism. 6 previous blocks, most recently by you. Thanks, Enigma^msg 16:01, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done. Sorry, I missed this somehow... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:36, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Snow Leopard

(Now Snow Leopard (Cat))
Hi J. I'm seeking your opinion (and corrective action if necessary) on this because you've cruised by this page recently (to revert vandalism) and seem to have a handle on the ins and outs of Wikipedia. Today, without any discussion, Humphreys7 moved the article about the cat from Snow Leopard to Snow Leopard (Cat) on the basis that "Mac OS X v10.6 deserves the redirect". This seems quite ridiculous to me since the OS is named after the cat, and I'm sure that the majority of users who search for "Snow Leopard" would be looking for the cat and not the OS. There was already a template pointing people to either the OS or the book if that was what they were actually looking for. Any chance you could have a look at this and take whatever action is required? Thx. Secret Squïrrel 10:36, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Someone else already moved it back. I left Humphreys7 a note on his talk page. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Thx. Secret Squïrrel 08:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Grammar Nazis

I also try to listen to the Grammar Nazis myself. Actually, I generally am one myself, which shows you just how much this has gotten to me. John Carter (talk) 15:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Reporting an edit war

An edit war in going on here, at the article for Resident Evil 5. There's an extremely controversial (yet admittedly insignificant) issue regarding the possible death of the main antagonist, but the game is never absolutely clear as to this death; it leaves it ambiguous. We reached a good agreement that if the game leaves his fate ambiguous, that's the best we can do as well to imply that he could have died, but not confirm or deny it. Anyways, it's well and good except for a user keeps coming and reverting the plot, saying that the character was decapitated (this is absolutely uncertain in the game), and that he died. He refuses to listen about the talk page agreement, and he keeps reverting particularly me and one other editor, calling us, for example, "pathetic fanboy," "biased fanboy," etc, etc, using profanity quite a bit. The user is an IP, actually a couple of different IPs, but clearly the same user, evidenced by similar IPs and almost identical edit summaries. Anyways, he's being quite rude, he's violated the 3RR rule, and he's refusing to go to the talk page to debate it. He wants it his way, and that's detrimental. I don't know how to deal with this right now, but I know that you're an admin who has helped me quite a few times in the past, so if you could get to this issue at your next convenience, I would really appreciate it. --The Guy _complain ^edits 20:33, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello

I am here to inform you that the staff at Elizabeth Ziegler Public School has changes, according to http://elz.wrdsb.on.ca/staff. Please refrain from reverting my edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.61.253 (talk) 23:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Deletion

Note: I did not advertise on this page. I am posting a link so that people who are interested in playing the game for FREE can do so on that bbs server. I did not realize that you censor free speech on your website. I did not violate any terms. So if you can leave that link up there i would be very happy. Many people login to the bbs from here to play the game and they are very happy they found the link to play the game as opposed to just an article on the history of the game. So as you can see, this link is very important to the article and has merit. I make no money on the BBS nor do i ask for donations. Its all HOBBY-Based, and its to bring back a piece of nostalgia to people who otherwise didn't realize these things still exist. I'm sure you understand mate.

SER

Your mail: Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page TradeWars 2002 has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. J.delanoygabsadds 23:48, 13 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonicfan (talk • contribs)

The Incident (Lost)

Hi, J. I see you are online so could you semi-protect this article for me please? I reported to RFPP as well. Landon1980 (talk) 03:43, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Landon1980 (talk) 03:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Your Macedonia statistics

Thanks for taking the trouble with the pageview statistics ([6]). Just a note: For several of the entries, especially the country entry, you need to add up the page views for the different redirects. Most readers of the country article still come to it through the Republic of Macedonia redirect (plus a few more through yet other redirects), because that is still where most internal wikilinks are piped to and what gets served up by Google, and those don't register as page view hits on Macedonia itself but are treated separately in the stats.grok.se figures. With all significant redirects taken together, the statistics of actual readership per article is roughly (per day): 4,200 for the country, 750 for ancient Macedon, 400 for Greece, 250 for the region, 100 for the dab page (since the move). 1,200 per day is the average number of people who come in through plain "Macedonia" in the search box (who used to be directed to the dab page previously and now end up as part of the 4,200 on the country page.) See File:Macedonia view statistics.png for an overview. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, in my data, I was trying to show that most people searching for the term "Macedonia" in general are intending to find info about the modern country. I didn't include the pageviews from Republic of Macedonia because people searching for that exact term or following a direct link to the redirect are unquestionably looking for info about the modern country, and including those statistics would not give an accurate picture about what people are looking for when they search for simply "Macedonia". If it interests you, I can make another table that includes pageviews for RoM and its redirects, but as I said, my data is attempting to deal with people who are not absolutely certain what they are looking for. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 13:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I agree it makes good sense to interpret the number of Macedonia hits as directly reflecting the number of (potentially undecided) readers coming in through the search box. Unfortunately, your statistics has a big unknown insofar as we don't know how many people are coming to Macedonia (Greece) and Macedonia (region) through other means, especially through regular internal wikilinks, so reconstructing the disambiguation traffic is quite difficult. The real proportion of readers interested in the country is probably higher. My own idea to reach an estimation was the following. If A is the number of plain "Macedonia" search box users (constant before and after the page move), B is the number of users ending up at "Republic of Macedonia" before the page move, and C is the number of "Republic of Macedonia" readers after the page move, then A + C - B should correspond to the number of false hits now, i.e. those users who now end up at the country page but really wanted something else. Unfortunately, this calculation only works if we can assume that the true overall interest in the country page remains constant, which will only be a safe assumption to make over the average of a much longer time period, because interest in the country is strongly affected by day-to-day factors, including the current wikipedia dispute itself. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Port Elizabeth

Hi, We are the official tourism body of Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth) Is there anyway of profiling our contact details or info on the Port Elizabeth wikipedia?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.211.2.234 (talk) 14:27, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Probably not. Wikipedia is not a free advertising service, and the community usually reacts very harshly when people try to use it as one. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 14:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

"Vandalism on football365 page"

Can you explain why my edit regards putting in mingeford365.co.uk/forum as a spin off of above site was removed, when wiki365.info is left in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.216.64.18 (talk) 15:01, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Because I did not see it before. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.216.64.18 (talk) 15:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Indefinitely?

User_talk:204.185.11.253 I thought we didn't do that to IP addresses. Durova^Charge! 15:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. Must have clicked the wrong template in Twinkle *sheepish look*. I didn't actually block him indefinitely. [7] J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Cobra Group Page

Please can you stop un doing the deletes on the Cobra Group page, the information is not correct. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.195.162 (talk) 15:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Banned IP

The IP you just banned (pretty damn quickly too) does have anouther IP to go and vandalise on, he told me, if you want it I can give it to you. 'The Ninjalemming' 19:19, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw it. If he tries anything with it, I'll block that one too. Thanks for letting me know. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, you need to be more careful yourself. You actually did violate the 3RR, and you could have wound up blocked as well. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:27, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

He's dodging his block. Geoff B (talk) 22:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Whoops, IO thought I was one away from the 3RR. 'The Ninjalemming' 08:10, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

New Kadampa tradition

Hey J-thank you fpr unblocking me on the above-i really need help from admins on this, they are rampant the stuff i posted on my user page (the thing that looks like a rant!) is what is going down. I am a new WP person and dont know how to handle this properly=please can you point the right people to it? I am going to post the rant on the article talk page Again thank youYonteng (talk) 20:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Odd editor

You blocked User:Paigntonuk, then in a moment of kindness unblocked them. They're back editing and they're being disruptive again, removing info and seemingly pushing the Heart Radio network.[8] Might you be able to take another look and block if appropriate? Fences and windows (talk) 00:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Topic: Ceviche

Hi J,

I'm trying to insert a reference to a similar dish from Sarawak (Malaysia) named Umai by the indigenous Melanau fishermen who are said to have invented it. As a Sarawakian, I have many fond memories of this wonderful dish which is basically raw fish marinated with a sour fruit or limes, onions, chillies and salt. Absolutely delicious. If you could help explain how to go about inserting this reference and maybe tagging it to Malaysia, Sarawak, I'd appreciate it.

Available descriptions from the net include:- http://balingian.blogspot.com/search/label/Umai http://likaumelanau.blogspot.com/2007/08/umai.html

Regards, Stanley Ling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.8.225 (talk) 02:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for removing the vandalism from my talkpage. Apparently, the individual in question was mad at me for reverting his/her vandalism earlier and decided to strike back at me. CardinalDan (talk) 04:51, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that happens. Just take it to mean you are doing a good job :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:00, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I would also like to thank you for your hard work in fighting vandalism. I've noticed a lot of the good things that you have done here and just wanted to thank you for it. Ironicaly enough you also blocked the IP address of my school district, don't worry about it though, they were a bunch of vandals; but I just found this kind of funny and wanted to point it out. Anyway keep up the good work! I Feel Tired (talk) 20:51, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

lol! You're welcome, and thanks :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

I apologise for those edits was just having soem fun. Wont repeat it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.99.19.8 (talk) 16:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Wizards of Waverly Place

You stole my reversion! How are you so fast? a little insignificant 18:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Huggle J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

New Picture!

Can you check it out please? MySummerJob (talk) 21:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

File:Tom Mark 09.jpg

My "leaving"

Oops, sorry! I'm not really leaving; when I put "bye", I was sorta talking to my messages by saying "bye" to them as I archived them. :P Sorry for the confusion.   JJ (talk) 00:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Haha, I would never leave completely from here :)   JJ (talk) 00:48, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Help

Kevinbrogers is adding unsourced information, and won't stop. The page is List of Monk episodes. Raiku Samiyaza :  Chat  04:17, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Atlaska Edit==

Hi this is hexen112590 i was just creating a page to test it out im new to this and i planned to edit and/or delete it right away im sry for the profanity i just needed something to test it our —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hexen112590 (talk • contribs) 04:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Not to be a pain

Can you please fix the distribution dispute for the picture on your page please?

I put the code on the image, I can't post it here. I would if I could so you could see it, but I can't and I wish to follow Wiki's rules. MySummerJob (talk) 20:31, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

There's not really much I can do. That image is definitely not free, and it is not impossible to find a free replacement. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

To be honest I can't find any other good pictures of Tom from 2009, that is why I used that one. Besides, I gave credit to the artist and Mark himself said we could use it only if we gave credit to Megan Thompson, which I did. So with what he said I figured we were allow to use it for free. So I brought to wikipedia and put it on both Mark's and Tom's pages. You can see it in this link I am posting. I am sorry for bothering you, I just think I have the right credentials for this picture to be on here. Again, I am sorry for bothering you. I just want this picture to stay up until like after Blink tours and 2010 comes up and I can get another pic up... But then I think I wont want to because I fought to keep this one up.

Here is the url, wiki wont let me post a link without giving me an error http://www.pickrset.com/markhoppus/?p=660 MySummerJob (talk) 03:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Header added

Sir are you the person who sent me the message in relation to the Edward Cullen article, RE the exclamation point? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilovebradpitt12 (talk • contribs) 23:28, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes. And it was about the "However, Edward constantly warns Bella against being with him, due to his own homoerotic feelings that both frighten and excite him", not the exclamation point. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:31, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Note to Ilovebradpitt12; I've already issued a warning to the editor who left that message about the exclamation point, which I agree was totally inappropriate. Hopefully it won't happen again. –  iridescent  23:34, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

JK —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilovebradpitt12 (talk • contribs) 23:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for being such a nice guy about it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilovebradpitt12 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

I see that we both had outstanding Wikipedian moments recently..;) --T'Shael MindMeld 00:55, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Question

You're an administrator, so hopefully you know this. If I put in a request to have my username changed and it is approved.. does my rollback permission come with the change or would I have to put in another request? Thanks, --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 23:50, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, when a rename is performed, everything associated with the account: preferences, password, email, rights, edits, logs, etc. is all transferred. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Spiffy. Thanks, --ThoseStarsBurnLikeDiamonds stargaze 01:22, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Can you edit young bucks page it needs to update. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Youngabloodzrida (talk • contribs) 19:15, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei

Is not vandalism, added and corrected the order of the last episodes. [9] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.59.0.46 (talk) 20:20, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

byob offensive words

Dear J.delanoy, Please do not revert my edits. They are censoring offensive (i.e. f-word). I think that having offensive language on any article gives wikipedia a bad impression.

-Jackson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.163.234 (talk) 23:51, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTCENSORED. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:56, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject User Rehab

Would you be interested in joining this project? We need more editors who share a burden for rescuing promising editors who have gotten into serious trouble because of behavioral issues. IF (a fundamental condition!) they are interested in reforming and adapting to our standards of conduct, and are also willing to abide by our policies and guidelines, rather than constantly subverting them, we can offer to help them return to Wikipedia as constructive editors. Right now many if not most users who have been banned are still active here, but they are here as socks or anonymous IPs who may or may not be constructive. We should offer them a proper way to return. If you think this is a good idea, please join us. Abce2|AccessDenied 04:24, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Arthur Benjamins

Dear J.delanoy,

I noted your warning recently relating to the upkeep of the Wiki entrance of the works of Arthur Benjamins and shall be interested in finding out how to proceed in future without falling foul of the Wiki licending laws and more.

Hoping to hear from you soon,

Yours sincerely,

Rotterdam1953 (talk) 18:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Dear J. delanoy,

Thank you for informing me that the block has been lifted but now I discover that yet another restriction has been placed on the Wiki-entrance, Could you shed some more light on something like this? Any help appreciated.

Many thanks

Rotterdam1953 (talk) 20:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Electricity

You prefer the peacocky "one of the most dramatic effects of electricity" over the simple and straightforward "first electrical phenomenon to be experienced by mankind"? De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess. 87.79.59.173 (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Quick question

How do you cite a magazine source? --The Guy _complain ^edits 01:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Probably Template:Cite_journal. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:55, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for a swift reply. Reliable as always :) --The Guy _complain ^edits 01:56, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Revert?

Reverted edits by Filosofen to last revision by Dave souza

So I can't edit my own text now while writing it first time? What? Filosofen (talk) 18:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

It was a mistake, and I thought I had undone it. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/66.183.7.184

Would you consider a long term block? There's a recurring pattern stretching back years.

Also, two things to speedy. The temporary category doesn't get cleaned out for months. Enigma^msg 19:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, he hasn't really vandalized in about 6 months, so I doubt it's the same person. I deleted the pages, though. Thanks for letting me know. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

The edits in February were vandalism as well. What I'm saying is that whether it's one devoted vandal or several, the edits emanating from the IP have been exclusively vandalism, as far as I can see, and there are eight blocks. Enigma^msg 19:31, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Swift reverts

Hello,

I have been watching all day amazed at the speed you are reverting bad edits! Incredible. Keep up the good work!--gordonrox24 (talk) 19:56, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :-) Huggle is pretty awesome. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:59, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Ya, I guess so. I am using Twinkle and my Roll Back rights and you are still beating me!--gordonrox24 (talk) 20:00, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi,

How were my edits vandalism? In my third edit, I removed some text which I intended to re-insert into another section. Since I did not remove and insert the text in the same edit, it was detected as vandalism.64.231.99.114 (talk) 15:56, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I must have read the edit wrong. Sorry. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:58, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I have just received a message telling me that the sentence "I love moles" has just been removed from the moles article. I did not put this text here and would never put such a pointless contribution on a wikipedia page. The real culprit is still out there, please repremand them and not me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.113.15 (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Request for a block of User:74.248.89.150

Since you responded to my request for administrative help on my talk page, I am requesting that you block User:74.248.89.150, who still continues to disrupt the Jägerbomb article by deleting essential references. Relevant discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Reply to above and the history of the article. Thank you. Wahrmund (talk) 16:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Magnets

What do you do that you attract grawp and 4chan so much! Do tell.— Dædαlus ^Contribs 22:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I'd say it probably has something to do with the fact that I have averaged just under thirty blocks per day for the entire time I've been an admin (almost 300 days) :-P J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:14, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for archiving that latest "Why Is FYROM Called Macedonia?" thread at Talk:Macedonia. (Taivo (talk) 22:38, 20 May 2009 (UTC))

Your idea

See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Macedonia_2/Proposed_decision#Disputed_article_movement.2Frenaming_injunction_extension — Rlevse • Talk • 10:51, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 16:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

About Macedonia - sthg i forgot to ask

You also said:

You had an opportunity to post your evidence to the Arbitration case, but you declined to do this.

I didn't know that! Sorry I am not an expert and I didn't know that i had such an opportunity. Please could you explain me how to do that? I didn't decline anything. Thanks in advance, I read a few things and now I understand why you were angry with me. Sorry again...

Braindamaged —Preceding unsigned comment added by Braindamaged (talk • contribs) 19:58, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

You can go to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2/Evidence, but the case's proposed decision has already been posted, and the arbitrators are voting. Also, you should know that the Committee expressly declines to decide content disputes. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

New Here

Hello! I'm new here to Wikipedia, but I have noticed you have done an excellent job in cleaning up the vandaism that has occurred on Wikipedia. I wish you the best of luck.

The only thing that matters is drag racing! 21:23, 21 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racingfan1923 (talk • contribs)

Cookie time

Maxypoda has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

maxypoda tik-tik-tik! 22:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Mmm tasty. tik-tik o_O J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

You made the change on my account. No vandalism! Alasto Light —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alasto Light (talk • contribs) 00:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Recent Edits to Charlestown, New Hampshire article

J. Delanoy,

Hemlock Center is an old village on the outskirts of Charlestown, NH that is now a part of the town of Charlestown, NH. A quick MapQuest of Hemlock Center, NH will bring up this small village. This edit was not vandalism.

24.34.151.186 (talk) 01:26, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi, you deleted a serious query

Sorry if it sounded silly. It was a real question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.100.94.231 (talk) 02:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Cheers

Thanks for reverting my talk page :D James'ööders 02:16, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

i got your message

sorry for doing that I just wanted to update it so PS3 owners would know. I'm sorry for doing that. Sincere apologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.160.16.125 (talk) 02:50, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the apoligies

I accept your apoligy... but not in any rude way so thanks for listening to me. P.S how do you play the chess game? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.160.16.125 (talk) 02:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, you can click the link above the board that says "make a move". The instructions are provided in hidden comments in the page's code. Right now, though, it's my turn, and I haven't made a move in a long time. Sorry. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

WP:FOUR

Thanks for keeping an eye on WP:FOUR. If you get a chance, I am trying to get people other than the nominator to review one or two nominees It would be great if you could do one or two.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:48, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Flag

Hello,

I thought that when we see things that are incorrect we would be able to flag them. I would like to flag this. It is incorrect and is misinformation about Ramadan, Jumuah and Islaam in general. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umm Hurairah (talk • contribs) 16:23, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism

Blurpeace has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!

Thanks for getting rid of that vandalism editor on my talk page. Much appreciated. ^blurred_peace ☮ 18:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

User:Jesse49‎

This user keeps removing ban notices from his talk page (which is against policy). Could you please ban this user from editing his talk page (the user was warned about this about 2 months ago). Thanks. Griffinofwales (talk) 03:17, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Same with User:Rebafan30. Both socks of Dingbat2007. Griffinofwales (talk) 03:30, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Alert

I would like to bring to your attention a particular user:User talk:Píss on wíkipedia.--The Legendary Sky Attacker 03:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

He's already blocked, apparently. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:05, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw his name on your talk page and reported him to UAA where he was blocked by Bongwarrior. :) --T'Shael MindMeld 04:07, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

RE: Rob Smith.

Can we please delete this page as the person in question is as reputable and of note as the existence of the giant tea cup revolving above the stellar quagmire Vogan3. Basically, it doesn't deserve to have a page. No sources or evidence that this man has a reputable career in music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.142.218 (talk) 13:35, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Deleted Article

Hello, Sorry I was wondering why you deleted the "Mexico Top 100" & the "Chilean Singles Charts" pages, I think they are the only place where we can find this information on Wikipedia, many people used those websites to find resources and information so I hope you can please recreate it please. Thank you very much I hope you can answer my request. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rihanoooo1191 (talk • contribs) 20:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

why did you delete mexican top 100 article?

that article was a very good help for radio stations here in Mexico, why is out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjmonje (talk • contribs) 20:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

turtle beach systems

I didn't make any edit to turtle beach systems. I don't even know what that is. 75.22.227.53 (talk) 03:12, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

To a fellow-patroller

Hi J.delanoy. I do a fair amount of quality-control on Wikipedia - maybe you've spotted 1 or 2 warnings I've issued in the past. Of course I have noted that you do a LOT of such patrolling. We both know the system usually works very well, provided users are given fair and appropriate, escalating warnings, eventually being reported if they continue.

But it seems it can happen that the odd user is harder to rein in. Such is the case I fear with this user - would you say I've given them sufficient, clear warnings?

However, to my surprise, when | I duly reported them, a single overseer apparently dismissed all my concerns in short shrift.

I think that, with your background, you too may have a contribution to make to what I had hoped might be a greater debate?

Equally, if I've missed some valid points of policy or protocol, I'd be grateful if you could point such things out to me, as you see fit. Thanks in advance for any time you could spare to this. Trafford09 (talk) 11:13, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 14:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

Elizabeth Ziegler

I am sorry for posting about this twice, but the staff at Elizabeth Ziegler Public School has changed, according to http://elz.wrdsb.on.ca/staff. Please refrain from reverting my edits, as the principal and vice-principal have changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.61.253 (talk) 02:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)99.236.61.253 (talk) 00:15, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

A note from a fan...

Hello sir- I am confused as to why you saw fit to remove Douglas Williams from the wiki entries. You cite lack of notability, yet he is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, having grown the world's longest nipple hair. He is too a talented artist, and has given several inspirational radio and print interviews. He deserves the added "notability" of his own wiki page. I cannot see why it was necessary for you to remove him, and to cite your reasons for doing so, other than to shame and humiliate him. I say, as this sight is made by the people, for the people, let Douglas Williams, a person of achievement and talent, be recognized here. Thank You. Trumdooz (talk) 06:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

The article was deleted as an expired PROD, or proposed deletion. A tag proposing the article for deletion was on the article for seven days. In that time any editor, including the article's creator was allowed to remove the proposed deletion tag. Since they did not, the article can be deleted by any administrator with no discussion. If you want, I can undelete the article and create a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello J, thank you for that explanation. If you would be so kind as to "undelete" this article, that would be great! Thank you once again.Trumdooz (talk) 03:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Williams (visual artist). J.delanoy^gabs_adds 04:16, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Would you mind restoring the talk page as well? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:15, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the talk page never existed. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I recall having a conversation about this somewhere, but it must have been a user talk page. Thanks anyway. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 16:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Header added

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Erm, hasn't J. delanoy been around since at least 2006? Jack forbes (talk) 19:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

hehe, yep. But thanks for the welcome anyways. That was nice of you :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:39, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your help with my IP block issues. I really appreciate your time. Steaphan Greene (talk) 06:59, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem! I'm glad that I was able to help you. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 07:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, I understand the conditions of this excemption (I had read all about that already in my quest to understand what was going on). I appreciate the help, and I will not abuse it. Again, thanks. Steaphan Greene (talk) 07:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

IP user

Hi, you recently reverted an IP user who removed an AfD notice. I've been watching this user for a while, since they began editing several pages created by another user. I've suspicions of sockpuppetry, see these user contributions for why:[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. On another of the pages, a school, they've reverted my edits that tidied the page, added a no sources notice etc. See [20] and [21]. I can't carry on reverting what I see as vandalism, as I'll just be guilty of edit warring. What should I do about this? Fences and windows (talk) 18:15, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Care to explain?

Would you explain why this edit is vandalism? If you bothered to read the article of the concerned person, you will find that he indeed proclaimed himself the "Messiah" and the "Second Coming of Christ". It is a ridiculous claim, but it is also sadly true. Please look carefully before your reverts and warnings next time. 202.40.139.171 (talk) 19:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

What the heck are you talking about? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I apologize, I gave the wrong link. Here it is. 202.40.139.171 (talk) 19:08, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

you sent me a message saying i was making an unconstructed edit, but could you help me then; the page i was editing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_Dalla_Valle, is not up to snuff. It fails the WP;Athlete template, yet it is not up for deletion. Could you help me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.61.62.157 (talk) 19:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Quick Question

Hi could you please Can take action against the constant vandalism on the Dennis Kucinich Page? It appears people keep changing Dennis Kucinich's name to elf and keebler. Possibly semi-protecting the page would be a solution. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theownedpilot (talk • contribs) 21:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

There's not really a lot of vandalism, so I don't think protecting the page is necessary. If you want another opinion, though, you can make a request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

U2

Thanks for the quick response.. even as a rollbacker, I couldn't keep up! Guy M (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, Rollback is pretty much useless against that much vandalism. Thanks for helping out with keeping it vandalism-free! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:43, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Quick question about our school IP

Overthetop2 (talk) 00:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC) Now... the last time anyone in our school edited a page in wikipedia using our IP rather than an account was on October 2008. Our school IP was banned till April 2009. However, without our school commiting another offence you re-ban our IP right through to September 2010? I don't get why this school gets another ban when they had done the time for their bad action... (yes i know schools usually vandalise but it still doesn't set a good justice example when the IP gets banned for 17 months after serving out the time for the crime ;))

A couple things

Hello, I decided to add more wiki applications to my tool belt other than TWINKLE. Which applications do you recommend?

Also, you're going on vacation!? =( Where are you going?

Anyways, I hope you have a blast =) MySummerJob (talk) 00:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the revert. This was a good call. Acalamari 01:49, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

User talk:130.216.1.16

You block warned and I blocked User:130.216.1.16, but there is a mixture of good and bad, how long do you suggest this should be blocked for, there has been chronic vandalism over a long time, due to being a university. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:48, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Lincoln mk9 page

this is about the lincoln mk9 page. Don't you think that would of been funny if someone read that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.168.108.79 (talk) 04:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Harlequin Shopping Centre Talk Page

Hello, I blanked the page as the image 'Image:Logo wht.gif' was removed in November 2007, so I gathered that it was no longer necessary on the talk page, as I was hoping to appeal for help with improving the page on the talk page. I hope you can see my reasoning. Thanks for you time. George5210 (talk) 18:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Good job.

Thanks for the corrections to the vandalism by 210.3.39.32 to the rms article. --Grandscribe (talk) 20:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

hat link

It wasn't out of the blue. Because I paused and let Taivo keep his edit that doesn't mean that it was right. Multiple times in the arbitration I've said the hat link is wrong. Take a look at the last talk post of 1111tomica to see what I'm talking about. Shadowmorph ^{^"^} 21:43, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

ethnic slurs used by a user

Not long ago you issued this warning: [22]. Could you please warn this user, User:Makedonij about this edit of his [23]? I really didn't understand what he wanted to say because of his poor English. I never called him Skopjan. Shadowmorph ^{^"^} 21:51, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Why do you want me to issue a warning for something you yourself don't even understand? (I don't either, but that's not the point) If neither of us understand him, what do you want me to warn him for? You warn him. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:02, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I know he used lots of highly offensive ethnic slurs. I can't warn him of a block because I don't have the power to block him. Anyway I see another user (Laveol) has warned him.Shadowmorph ^{^"^} 22:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I need some advice

I've been monitoring and cleaning the Combat Arms for a long time now, and I'm wondering: In the list of gameplay modes, is it worthy to mention modes that are generally not available, for example the "Snowball fight" whic hseems to be only accessible during the Christmas holidays? I've been doing what I can to read up on wikipedia's rules, and I'm slowly getting the finer details down, but I need some help here. Eik Corell (talk) 13:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you can find a source to back it up, you could probably add a sentence or two if you want. I'm probably not the best person to ask about this; I mostly fight vandalism, not write articles. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Weymouth F.C. - eh?

I was the person who made this edit, although I'd accidentally failed to log in so was recorded as User:81.159.57.7. That aside, though, I have no idea why you consider it unconstructive: to me it's a simple, uncontroversial copyedit, IP or logged in! Loganberry (Talk) 17:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm. I think I must have seen the word "legend" and assumed someone was trying to add themselves. Sorry. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Heh, true enough. Actually I'm not really happy with the (over)use of words such as "legend" in this type of article, as they do often tend to the POV side and actually mean "anyone remotely well known locally", but didn't want to do anything controversial to a subject I didn't know much about. Loganberry (Talk) 17:22, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me sir

I recently received a message from you, half a second after editing (minor edit) an introduction of a non-protected article (at least, there was no mention of it). It stated that my edit was unconstructive and thus vandalism.

You CANNOT decide in half a second whether my edit is constructive or not, not without discussing it first in the discussion page as I did:

I read ALL the discussion page which was very divided about the need to change the introduction. As the subject divided equally the users in two, I decided to count the sources quoted from dictionaries and encyclopedias and found that there were 19 sources in favor of an introduction change to 1 opposing it.

One of the users proposed an alternative introduction that was seconded by 4 users including himself to 2 users opposing it (all of this can be checked at Talk:Americas) which is why I decided to replace the existing introduction by the new one approved by the majority.

And as I said, half a second after I edited the page, I received your message and my edit was reverted with no further explanation regardless of the following Wikipedia Policies:

"Revert vandalism on sight, but revert a good faith edit only as a last resort. Edit warring is prohibited."

"Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Even harmful edits that are not explicitly made in bad faith are not vandalism. For example, adding a controversial personal opinion to an article once is not vandalism."

This being said, as I cannot edit the article because of the threat of being considered a vandal, hopefully you will change the article to the version "18:32, 28 May 2009 Sinekonata (talk | contribs) (74,791 bytes) (→(User)'s views on introduction text)" or please explain why. --Sinekonata (talk) 20:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Bike For Three! deleted

Hey there. My new article, Bike For Three!, was speedy deleted (not by you). I'd like to work on it further, though I can't access the deleted content. Can you get it for me? Thanks, -M.Nelson (talk) 02:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

See User:M.nelson/Bike For Three!. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. -M.Nelson (talk) 02:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Bourbon

hello, I am new to wiki and am not sure about editing ettiquete etc. I just had a comment to suggest for your bourbon article. To be able to Put the name bourbon on the bottle, the whiskey must be made in Kentucky. That is why even though whiskey's such as Jack Daniel's are sour mash, they cannot put the bourbon name on the bottle. http://www.evanwilliams.com/about_faq.shtml?article=MjgyN3N1cGVyMjgyNHNlY3JldDI4MzE%3D Danielsm3 (talk) 17:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are asking me... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:55, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Carlos Micháns

Dear Nick,

Thanks for your message. I notice, however, that your editing of my entry has not improved it. On the contrary, it has reinserted wrong information which I had painstakingly corrected myself. I don't quite understand why you did this (I am new to Wikipedia), but I am not particularly happy about it!

Thanks.

Kindly,

Carlos (Utrecht1953) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Utrecht1953 (talk • contribs) 20:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Check this out

So I was checking out Tom DeLonge's wiki page and edit history out of fear there was vandalism, and surprise, surprise, there was. Anyway I checked out one vandal's records and for some odd reason he wasn't reported, unless he was and he deleted it. Here they are Max3091

Also, sorry to be a pain, but can Tom be locked again? A flood gate of vandals came back -_- MySummerJob (talk) 22:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

WWE Backlash

Should the edits from 116.71.42.223 be deleted from the log? If that is a real phone number (the IP is from Pakistan and I am unfamiliar with the Pakistani phone system) then that could be a privacy violation. Right now that info is still available to anyone who checks the edits. TJ Spyke 18:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I was going to, but that page is huge, so I got an oversighter to revdelete them. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:13, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

I never made a change to Daniel Craig's page, in fact I dont think I have ever been on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.216.221.56 (talk) 20:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

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